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Image and the office of the dead in late medieval Europe : regular, repellant, and redemptive death
- Title
- Image and the office of the dead in late medieval Europe : regular, repellant, and redemptive death / Sarah Schell.
- Author
- Schell, Sarah
- Publication
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]
- ©2023
- Supplementary Content
- Image
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- Description
- 239 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- <Cite>Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe</cite> explores the Office of the Dead as a site of interaction between text, image, and experience in the culture of commemoration that thrived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Office of the Dead was a familiar liturgical ritual, and its perceived importance and utility are evident in its regular inclusion in devotional compilations, which crossed the boundaries between lay and religious readers. The Office was present in all medieval deaths: as a focus for private contemplation, a site of public performance, a reassuring ritual, and a voice for the bereaved. Examining the images at the Office of the Dead and related written, visual, and material evidence, this book explores the relationship of these images to the text in which they are embedded and to the broader experiences of and aspirations for death.
- Series Statement
- Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 ; 50
- Uniform Title
- Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 50.
- Subject
- To 1500
- Art and religion > Europe > History > To 1500
- Death in art
- Death > Europe > History > To 1500
- Death > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Art, Medieval > Europe > History
- Mort dans l'art
- Mort > Aspect religieux > Christianisme
- Art médiéval > Europe > Histoire
- History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600
- Religious subjects depicted in art
- ART / History / Renaissance
- RELIGION / Christian Church / History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
- Art and religion
- Art, Medieval
- Death
- Death in art
- Death > Religious aspects > Christianity
- History of art
- Religious and ceremonial art
- Religious issues and debates
- Europe
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
- HIS
- Art and Material Culture
- ART & MAT
- Religion and Theology
- REL & THEOL
- Commemoration, devotional practice, manuscripts, funeral, Book of Hours,
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "Amsterdam University Press"
- Figures Introduction The Office of the Dead in Christian Liturgy The Office of the Dead in Devotional Books Regular Death: Reading the Funeral and Imaginative Practice Seeing into the Office: Imagining Reader as Body Hearing Community: Image and Liturgy Repellent Death: Time, Rot and the Death of the Body Death-tide: Time and decay of the body 'Nothing more base and abominable': The Corpse Disruption: The Lively Corpse Dry Bones: Death in Life The Redemptive Death: Job, Lazarus and Death Undone Living Death: Job as the Social Body The Undead: Lazarus and the Promise of Resurrection Conclusions Bibliography Bibliography: Manuscripts
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9463722114
- 9789463722117
- OCLC
- on1382914374
- 1382914374
- SCSB-14648300
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries